I will straight up admit, I do not know about what half of this movie was. It wasn’t even my 2nd movie of the night, so I was drunk, but not THAT drunk. So I have to reference the the beginning sequence, a real Tower of Babel kinda thing. It doesn’t end well there for them, if you’re familiar with the original story. And the following scripture? The Leviticus 26 one that is all fuckin brimstone and evil shit? Yeah. That’s how this is prefaced. Appropriately so.
Man-In-Tube is sent down quickly through some kind of post-apocalypse surface battles, down into the earth. I’m saying ‘man-in-tube’ but given the nature of this story, for all I know it’s a fuckin mutant carrot in that suit. That’s the kind of movie this is. The tube goes Deep. A lot of layers of weird crazy shit going on here. And when I say weird crazy shit, I mean weird crazy shit. I reviewed Junk Head not too long ago (which is fantastic, btw), that’s some pansy-assed Sesame Street stuff compared to what’s going on here. When touchdown is finally made, a map is referenced. How the fuck anything that surrounds SuitCarrot is correlated to the map? It’s a mystery. And it just gets more creepy-disturbing from there.
This is an interesting combination of stop-motion, model work, live action and LSD that gives it a very unique look. I think I’ll have to watch again at some other point, just because some of it is almost so alien your mind doesn’t even know what it’s witnessing. Lynch-ian. Kubrick/Clarke 2001-ish. Tool video-esque. Tippett began with that first Star Wars movie. The holographic chess scene? Yeah, that was his. He went on to work with Industrial Light & Magic on their animation side for a bit, and really ended up helping the transition to CGI with Jurassic Park, and had his hand in some part on the Creative Visuals of a lot of movies since then. But this movie was always his independent creation, started in 1990. And apparently after finishing this like 30 years later, he kinda went a little insane? Like, certifiable nuthouse crazy. I wouldn’t blame him. This is some dark shit. Weird shit. Even some seriously fucked up shit. Great to throw on at family gatherings! Heh!
